The document summarizes a workshop held in Brussels about special educational needs. It discusses a special high school and lyceum in Athens that serves about 100 students with disabilities from northern and southern suburbs. The school has over 30 years of experience in special education and employs 40 specialists, teachers, and support staff. It provides teaching, care, research, and incorporates cultural, sporting, and vocational activities into its curriculum to broaden the educational experience for students. Over 50 graduates have received higher education degrees, and some have won medals in Special Olympics and Paralympic Games.

1. Future Classroom Lab workshop
Make Learning accessible
“Special Educational Needs in my classroom” ,
29-30 September 2018, Future Classroom Lab ,
Brussels
Participants from Greece: Roula Petrou, Eygenia Fitsali,
Maria Palaska
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2. September 2018
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3.  It is one of the two Special High Schools and General
Lyceums in Athens, located in the Municipality of
Heliopolis.
 The school annually hosts about 100 students
originated from the northern suburbs of Athens to the
southern suburbs of Piraeus.
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Our school has been for more than 30 years
the center of capitalizing experiences and
ideas about disability.

4.  40 special education specialists, teachers, specialists
and support staff, guides of the school buses and
escorts work in our school.
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It is a multipurpose center of teaching, care and
research on special education.
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Over the years, we have all learned a lot and mainly
have come across multiple aspects of disability.
We realized that disability does not belong to anyone
exclusively, it is not a personal and family affair, but it
is a complex social issue.

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Over the years, we have all learned a lot and mainly
have come across multiple aspects of disability.
we have emphasized on the development of the social
skills of our students and we have incorporated into the
curriculum /program cultural and sporting activities,
European programs and partnerships with schools
from all over Europe, environmental education
programs, health education, counseling and vocational
guidance, thus broadening the content of education.

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Through joint actions, we have developed close links
with schools in the wider region.
More than 50 graduates of the Special General
Lyceum are graduates of higher education institutions
and have secured professional rehabilitation. Other
graduates honoured our country by winning medals in
Special or ParaOlympic, World and European Games.

8. CELEBRATING 30 YEARS:1987-2017
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9. SPORT EVENTS/ BOCCIA, AVTIVITIES
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10. OPEN TO THE SOCIETY
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….Finally, we work closely with local government,
scientific, academic and cultural institutions and
important people of culture.

12. …- OUR SCHOOL THROUGH IMAGES
PARTICIPATING IN ACTIVITIES &
PARADES
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13. WE ORGANISE THEATERS & FESTIVALS !
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14. Aspects of the Building & the buses
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15. SPECIAL HIGH SCHOOL OF ATHENS
SPECIAL LUCEUM OF ATHENS
 ADDRESS: HYDRAS 2 & ALKIVIADOU STR.,
16345 ILIOUPOLI
 PHONE: +30 2109935714
 fax: +30 2109964996
 e-mail: mail@lyk-eid-athin.att.sch.gr
 blogs.sch.gr/lykeidat/
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16. Future Classroom Lab workshop
Make Learning accessible
“Special Educational Needs in my classroom” ,
29-30 September 2018, Future Classroom Lab ,
Brussels
Participants from Greece: Roula Petrou, Eygenia Fitsali,
Maria Palaska
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